The Republican Clown Show
American politics has sunk to the depths of incredulity this year. With Mitt Romney kissing the collective ass of the delusional Republican base and Mike Huckabee spouting off religious inanity at every opportunity, the candidates are making a mockery of our Constitution, our history, and the principles upon which the United States was founded. True, the Democrats have raised their faith on the campaign trail, but none of them have to the extremes that flakes like Huckabee have:
Huckabee was asked if he considered Mormonism a cult or a religion. "I think it's a religion," he said in the interview, published on the newspaper's Web site on Wednesday. "I really don't know much about it." Then he asked: "Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?"Of course, Mitt von Panderer wasn't very happy about it:
"I think attacking someone's religion is really going too far. It's just not the American way. and I think people will reject that," the former Massachusetts governor said. "That's been something that's been leveled at our church over many many years and of course that's been set straight now," he added.Oh, my, Mitt. Are you saying that a topic you brought into an official campaign speech is off limits for attack from your rivals? It doesn't matter though, really. While the Republicans are busy deciding which candidate is pious enough to bring God to the White House, the rest of America (meaning the majority) are considering the practical (i.e., real) issues. If either one of these nutjob clowns gets the nomination, I think that will motivate rational voters to swarm the polls. The only people who want religious nuts, sincere or otherwise, in the White House are religious nuts. Neither Romney or Huckabee has the slightest chance of making it that far without more Republican manipulation of the polls (another thing that it's a shame we have to worry about).